IT and process decision makers exploring the benefits and inhibitors of blockchain as evidenced from the clients and vendor capability

Vendor marketing, sales and business managers developing strategies to identify developments and target opportunities within managed service programs

Financial analysts and investors specializing in, or covering the blockchain industry and suppliers.

Scope of this Report:

The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of IBM’s blockchain offering, capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:

Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments in both its service and technology

Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook

Revenue

Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts

Analysis of the company’s key offerings (service model and service components)

Analysis of the company’s delivery capability (including the location, size and scale of delivery operations; and delivery via technology).

Key Findings & Highlights:

IBM launched its blockchain unit in 2014 as the outcome of an IBM research project that projected a total economic value of $176 billion added to global GDP by 2025 through the application of blockchain, with that figure reaching $3.1 trillion by 2030.

IBM was a founding member of the Hyperledger project community and focused its efforts on a single project within that community, Hyperledger Fabric. Hyperledger announced the production-ready version of Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 in July of 2017, at which time IBM solutions built to that point were ready for production deployment.

IBM does not disclose its Blockchain-specific revenues, but NelsonHall estimates its revenue from Blockchain projects at $50m.